What’s it like to be more or less the only character in a live, full-length opera, playing the role of a real-life intense person who lived life intensely, while accompanied by an electric guitar? Mezzo-soprano Abigail Fischer dishes about playing Isabelle Eberhardt, the inspiration for Missy Mazzoli’s opera Song from the Uproar: The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt, with the NOW Ensemble.

Mezzo-soprano Abigail Fischer. Photo courtesy of Ms. Fischer’s website.

Audio production by Todd “Touché!” Hulslander with karate chops from Dacia Clay.

Music in this episode is all from Missy Mazzoli’s Song from the Uproar which you can hear and purchase on Bandcamp.

PS, If you liked this, check out Classical Classroom, Episode 69: The Kids Are Alright, With Missy Mazzoli.

If you’re in Houston, you can see Abigail Fischer in Song this coming Friday 3/20. For tickets go to: www.dacamera.com

For more about Abigail Fischer: www.abigailfischer.com